Quote by Havelock Ellis
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. – Havelock Ellis

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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. – Havelock Ellis

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Education
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. – Havelock Ellis

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Wisdom
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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. – Havelock Ellis

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? – Mark Twain

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Religion

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence. – Robert Rainy

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Religion

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. – Mary Douglas

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Religion

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, Id think, how awful. – Karen Armstrong

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Religion

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. – St. Augustine

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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. – Joseph Conrad

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Miscellaneous

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress. – Mark Zuckerberg

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Business